As part of the St. James students and Morlens Veterinary Clinic Community Outreach projects, the following were offered:

Free medicated shampoo and wash (to remove fleas and ticks) was performed by the students. AARF supplied the materials and the students provided the enthusiasm and volunteers!

Free vaccination clinic hosted by AARF. Any eligible dog or cat got a free vaccination and exam by Morlens vet, Dr. Brian Murray. Morlens staff was also on hand and threw themselves wholeheartedly into the event.

Hot dogs, drinks, cupcakes and other delicious snacks were sold by St. James students as a fundraiser for their students

Some 50 dogs and cats arrived to be bathed and some 42 vaccinations and exams were given. Fabulous!

Shop at Amazon Smile and AARF gets donations

#StartWithaSmile at https://smile.amazon.com/ch/80-0773777 for your holiday gifts — and Amazon donates to AARF.

The holidays are approaching and you’ll soon be busy shopping for gifts, decorations, and more. Did you know that if you shop at Amazon’s special portal, smile.amazon.com, Amazon will donate to AARF at NO COST TO YOU!

The way it works is you follow the link to https://smile.amazon.com/ch/80-0773777 or click on the image to the right. You will be taken to a special page on Amazon that lets you shop in exactly the same way you normally shop at Amazon. Your log in, preferences, prices, offers stay the same — in fact the entire shopping experience is identical. The only difference is that when you buy something, Amazon donates a small portion of its profit to AARF (or any charity you choose).

In fact, you can bookmark this link and use it all year long. The number in the link represents AARF.

AARF is in the Washington Post!

Click here to see just a few pets being transported

Washington Post article

The Washington Post has an article on volunteers transporting dogs and cats from other countries. The article lists several organizations that facilitate these transports. AARF is on the list, and in fact, is first on the list. This a an excellent article written by Andrea Sachs. Follow her link to see her other work, including another article about transporting.

AARF has had a very successful transport program called Anguilla Puppy Express (which despite the name, includes kittens and cats) which has sent hundreds of Anguillian dogs and cats to the USA and Canada for adoption. In fact, we've sent over 70 internationally in 2016 alone (through October)!

It’s all done via volunteers who take the pet from Anguilla, usually on a ferry to Sint Maarten (with some flights from Anguilla’s airport) and then on planes to North America — where other volunteers and rescue groups take over and find them forever homes. This saves otherwise unwanted pets and gives them fabulous homes.

AARF pays for the airline fees and paperwork, and provides a full kit to take the pet on the journey. And it’s funded entirely through donations to our Puppy Express Fund. This makes it very easy for the transporting volunteers, who all not only love the experience, but very often want to repeat the experience!

Give a forever home to one of our great puppies, kittens, cats and dogs! They’re shown below in order of arrival; those at the top have been in the shelter the longest.

Dogs and puppies at the shelter:

Kobi — male puppy.

Kittens and cats at the shelter:

None at this time — please check back later.

Note: For larger images and more information, click on any thumbnail image that has a visible border or go directly to our Available page.

Kobi

Other Rescue Sites

Other Rescue Sites with Anguilla Puppies and Kittens

Sometimes you don’t have to travel to Anguilla to adopt. Your new island dog, cat, kitten or puppy may be closer than you think!

In the New Jersey area, Island Puppy Rescue (IPR) often has puppies of ours that were transported by helpful AARF friends. Also in the USA (in Southern Connecticut), The Animal Experts takes dogs and cats and puts them up for adoption. And in the Chicago area, we have R&R Rescue, a new nonprofit run by Renee and Rosalie, former Anguilla residents.

R&R Rescue in Chicago

A Little R & R Animal Sanctuary in Chicago is run by Renee and Rosalie who lived in Anguilla and have a special fondness for Anguillian animals. They have a Facebook page as well as a web site.

The Animal Experts in Southern Connecticut

Are you in Connecticut? Elena, with The Animal Experts in southern Connecticut, is an AARF rescue partner. She finds forever homes for kittens as well as puppies.

We've moved our Thrift Store from the Catholic Church to the Megasavers building in the Farrington.

After two years, AARF has a new, great location in the Megasavers building in The Farrington.

Not only is it larger, but it’s completely indoors. And we are thrilled to thank our anonymous donor for the first year's rent!

Open hours for September and October will be Tuesdays only from 9–12.

As more volunteers arrive on island for high season, the store will expand hours to Tuesday and Fridays, 9–12, with Saturdays TBD.

Want to help at the store? Volunteers and donations are always needed. If you’re able to help us out, please stop by during business hours, email us (see our email address on the right) or call AARF at 264–476–2731.

The drop off box is still in its original location in the St. Gerard’s Catholic Church parking lot. Please continue to use it for donations. Or, if you have donations, drop by the store during open hours, or come by our shelter when it is open.

Important: Please do NOT park directly in front of the store and take spaces from Megasavers customers. There is parking on either side.

AARF team

Blessing by Father Paul

Shoppers

Map

Haven't tried Megasavers? You should! You can get quality warehouse goods (like you can at Costco). See their Megasavers Facebook page.

Delta Airlines Raises Minimum age for In–cabin Pets to 16 weeks

August, 2016: Delta is officially the least pet friendly airline that flies between the USA and Sint Maarten (SXM). They’ve changed the minimum age for bringing a pet in the cabin to 16 weeks for international flights.

That effectively means no AARF puppies will be able to travel with Delta, as the puppies are too large to fit in in–cabin carriers by that age. And of course, it excludes young kittens as well.

If you plan to adopt or transport for AARF — or if you want to ado pta a young puppy or kitten from Anguilla, Delta is not going to fly for you.

The Anguilla Animal Rescue Foundation (AARF) is a non–profit organization dedicated to the welfare of dogs, puppies, cats and kittens on the Caribbean island of Anguilla.

Founded in September 2000, we are 100% unpaid and 100% volunteer–driven with an adoption center and rescue shelter (map) located within Anguilla’s only veterinary clinic.

Anguilla is a very small island which lies about 140 miles east of Puerto Rico. It’s very small — only 16 miles long by 3 miles wide. The land area is about 35 square miles, or about 91 km2. (If you want to learn more about Anguilla, here are a few pointers to more bits of information.)

The population is about 14,000 and the ratio of pets to those owners wanting pets is very high. Most people who want a pet have one, but there are many animals available.

And what great dogs and cats we have! Because of mixing over time, our dogs and cats are smart, have excellent personalities and are great looking too. They are in such great demand that dozens each year are adopted by visitors, and once their friends meet out about them, by their friends.

AARF History and Quick Tour

Founded in 2000, our history is summarized in an article covering our our ten year anniversary.

We have a short 3 minute video that shows our shelter. Links to various sizes and formats are lower down on this page in this column.

Mission Statement

Our mission:

Promote the welfare of dogs, cats, puppies and kittens on Anguilla.

Adoption Center and Rescue shelter

We work to accomplish that mission via several activities and programs. Specifically, we:

Maintain an adoption center and rescue shelter that takes in unwanted animals.

Provide for adoptions of healthy animals at a reasonable cost.

Socialize incoming animals to make them adoptable.

Educate the public in the humane treatment and care of animals. In particular, we have an education program that
visits school children with a classroom presentation several times a year and we publish articles in the nation’s newspaper and tourist literature.

Attempt to reduce the population of unwanted animals through education and by providing spay and neuter surgery to new adopters
and with targeted Trap, Neuter and Release (TNR) programs. We provide for need–based spays and neuters on a case by case basis. Our Spay and Neuter program is making a tangible difference: even repeat visitors have commented on the difference!

More About AARF

We are an established non–profit corporation and have a subsidiary corporation in Florida (the Anguilla Animal Rescue Corporation or AARC) that has been granted U.S. 501(c)(3) status.

We receive no funding at all from any source; 100% of our budget comes from donations, fundraisers and the sale of a small amount of merchandise. Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) minutes talk about our finances and accomplishments. Our most current one is here.

Also, please join our low–volume, one–way announce aarfupdate email list, which provides up to the minute information about happenings. We also have a two–way forum on Facebook for everyone to post news and items of interest.

We Have a Video!

We have a short 3 minute video that describes us and shows our shelter. See it in various sizes (smallest to largest):